Verdant Idea

Verdant Idea 0.9 - Strange New World Update is out!

This update brings 9 new structures, reworked early game, dirt rework, quite a few improved recipes, construction wands, furniture and much more!

If you're updating from a previous version, some of the quests in The Secret of Life might be reset. Additionally, if you haven't got copper or iron just yet, it may be harder to do so after the update (as structures won't generate in already created chunks). Otherwise, there should be no issues!

Mod changes:

• updated Wasteland Things
• added Another Furniture
• added Construction Wand

0.9 changes:

• added 9 new structures that can generate in the overworld
• revamped The Secret of Life quest line
• added depleted soil farmland
• tweaked depleted soil restoration logic
• changed clover spread logic to make it more blobby and to stop it from spreading infinitely
• applying compost to depleted soil will now spawn a bunch of clover and wildflowers
• pasture seeds can be created from petals and clover in a petal apothecary
• rebalanced soil requirements for some of the plants
• garden cloche now supports all crops
• replaced dirt spawning near rivers and underground with depleted soil
• zombies, zombie villagers and husks now drop iron scrap instead of iron ingots, potatoes and carrots (25% base drop rate)
• removed meteorite compass and mysterious cube (unused items)
• water wheel now requires an iron rod instead of a steel ingot
• colored sheetmetals can now only be crafted from iron and steel sheetmetals
• many metal blocks can now be cut into iron scrap using a cutting board
• removed pewter alloying recipe (as it’s not used anywhere)
• readded organic compost, rich soil is now created from organic compost
• iron and copper seeds now use the respective ingots in their recipes
• updated weak essence recipe
• tweaked amethyst fertilizer recipe
• fixed frogs always spawning as temperate in ruined/recovering biomes
• removed dye, spider and slime seeds
• removed slimy and ghostly bees
• greenheart sapling and earthslime seeds can now be created using petal apothecary
• emerald bee is now obtained by giving diamond bee an emerald
• fixed clover using stone sounds
• clover is now compostable
• earth and air essence can no longer be used to craft dirt; instead, it can be used to increase the amount of amethyst fertilizer created
• fixed sussy bees not creating suspicious blocks with loot in recovering water biomes
• replaced mushroom stems in dark forests and mushroom fields with dead mushroom stems, which drop mushroom spores when broken
• quarry bees can no longer create dirt
• rod of the lands is now considered endgame
• unified nitrate and niter dust
• unified garden cloche fertilizers and phytogenic insolator catalysts
• removed moss block from carpets recipe
• old industrial fertilizer and phyto-gro are no longer obtainable and are no longer usable
• mushrooms can now grow on dirt, grass and all depleted soil variants no matter the light level
• updated main menu panorama
• fixed trees very rarely spawning in wooded badlands
• fixed depleted soil loot table and effective tool